Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Francis Drake
Jacques Cartier
Ferdinand Magellan
Prince Henry the Navigator
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
made 4 voyages to the Americas while representing Spain
Portuguese explorer who traveled around the Cape of Good Hope to arrive in India, the first European to find an all water route to the Indies
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire in Peru/Chile
French explorer who claimed parts of Canada for his country and mapped the St. Lawrence River
Portuguese man who sponsored expeditions of the western coastline of Africa and set up a navigation school but never sailed a ship.
first ever to circumnavigate, sailed for Spain
English explorer, circumnavigated, defeated Spanish Armada, pirate
Spanish conquistador, conquered the Aztecs in Mexico